Repeated Sexual Harassment at McGill Poli Sci

Until November 24, 2017 there was a very interesting and enlightening thread on sexual harassment at the Department of Political Science at McGill University.

The old URL was: http://www.poliscirumors.com/topic/repeated-sexual-harassment-at-mcgill-poli-sci

The thread on PSR was up for over a year and in that time, many former victims came forward and spoke up of their experiences of sexual harassment at the hands of some of the professors there. They outed them, they shared what happened to them, they also shared what they heard and some very insightful comments on the topic in general.

Unfortunately the thread was taken down yesterday - but the old Google cache copies are still online and screen shots of these old pages of the 13 page-long thread were taken, saved and distributed to a number of people for safekeeping so that even through the PSR thread is now gone, copies of it still exist elsewhere.

I will be posting all of them here for posterity's sake as well as to keep a permanent digital record of what victims have said in the past. It won't be perfect, since it will be a copy and paste job, but it's all taken from screen shots with no editing.

Here's an example

McGill University has a major problem

McGill University has a problem.
A serious problem which it refuses to address in any sort of impactful way.

It's called Sexual Harassment - and like fecal bacteria in a petri dish, it seems to thrive in the McGill environment. Whether it is sexual harassment or even abuse from one student to another or one faculty member to another or when it involves a faculty member inflicting it on students, the least powerful members of the McGill community of all.

It exists. It is real. Students have endured their suffering in silence for decades, with the effects still bothering them long after they have left the campus. The professors still keep their jobs, benefits and inflict their harassment on a new crop of students which come in every year. It is the perfect environment for serial harassers because they know their old victims will leave McGill eventually and never be heard from again. It continues and no one is doing anything about it.

Some professors have gone on the record to out some of the harassers but they could do that because they are no longer at McGill and never had to sign confidentiality agreements. Other professors only wish they could but their own peers have silenced them because they want to keep their jobs even though they know it is the right thing to do. Everyone is afraid of speaking the truth.

McGill University, as an institution seems to care more about its own reputation and its professors than for the welfare and well-being of the students, who are the bread and butter of the university itself. It is not a student-friendly environment and even worse for victims and survivors.

This blog is an attempt to post from the victims and survivors side of the story.